{"id":50769,"date":"2026-03-17T16:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50769"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:18:02","slug":"ffmpeg-8-1-rockchip-jpeg-xs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/ffmpeg-8-1-rockchip-jpeg-xs\/","title":{"rendered":"FFmpeg 8.1 Released with Rockchip & JPEG-XS Support [Ubuntu PPA]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FFmpeg, the popular multimedia library, release new major 8.1 version yesterday on March 16th.<\/p>\n

The new version, code-name “Hoare”, features some new encoders and decoders for more codecs support, new filters, and other improvements.<\/p>\n

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First, FFmpeg 8.1 added experimental decoding support for xHE-AAC Mps212<\/b>, an audio codec designed for low-bitrate streaming and digital radio, and MPEG-H 3D audio decoding by using the mpeghdec<\/a> library.<\/p>\n

It also added both encoding and decoding support for JPEG-XS<\/b>, the codec designed for professional video over IP in broadcast and other scenarios, such as virtual reality, drones, or gaming.<\/p>\n

As well as JPEG-XS parser and JPEG-XS raw bitstream muxer and demuxer, they are supported by using libsvtjpegxs<\/code> library.<\/p>\n

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The Vulkan compute-based codecs (introduced in FFmpeg 8.0), that allows programs to use hardware accelerated rendering, calculating, and decoding on any GPU that support Vulkan 1.3+, has been updated with both encoding and decoding support for Apply ProRes codec<\/b>, as well as decoding support for DPX image format.<\/p>\n

It as well possible to utilize the Vulkan graphics API to perform image processing task, such as scaling, resizing, and color space conversion.<\/p>\n

For Windows, the new version now supports using the DirectX 12 (D3D12) API to access hardware-accelerated AV1 and H.264 encoding. And for Rockchip SoCs, like the RK3588, RK3566, and RK3399, it now supports hardware accelerated H.264 and HEVC encoding.<\/p>\n

Besides new encoders and decoders, FFmpeg 8.1 also supports transforming raw audio or video frames with more filters.<\/p>\n

They include drawvg<\/code> filter to render vector graphics on top of video frames, Direct3D 12 (D3D12) hardware-accelerated vf_scale_d3d12<\/code>, vf_deinterlace_d3d12<\/code>, and vf_mestimate_d3d12<\/code> filters, as well as LCEVC (MPEG-5 Part2) metadata bitstream filter.<\/p>\n

Other changes include:<\/p>\n